I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 709: The Opportunity You Gave
The hustle and bustle of Wuzhen receded like the tide. The next day, hundreds of miles away in Nanxin, Fang Qingye's nursery presented a completely different scene.

The warm winter sun shines down, and several wintersweet bushes bloom in a corner of the nursery, their subtle fragrance wafting in the air. Inside the greenhouse, Cymbidium goeringii is in bloom, its cool, refreshing scent wafting through the air.

Fang Qingye set up a large tea table in the courtyard, using Zheng Yan tea from Da Hong Pao, which had a distinct mineral flavor after brewing.

After midnight, everyone's cars arrived one after another.

Ding Lei arrived first, and Fang Qingye greeted him at the entrance of the nursery. She noticed that after he got out of the car, he actually took out two boxes of exquisite Weiyang pork jerky from the trunk, and a smile appeared on his chubby face.

"President Fang, I'm keeping my promise to send pork from Wuzhen, and I'd also like to have a cup of good tea with you."

"Thank you, but I'll accept it politely."

Immediately afterwards, Lei Jun's car arrived, and he was holding the latest Xiaomi phone, seemingly still handling official business.

What a hard worker!
Fang Qingye greatly admired this.

He's the only one who can treat his work as a personal interest and take it to the extreme.

Later, Zhu Yunlai, Zhang Chaoyang, and others arrived one after another, and the nursery suddenly became lively.

Fang Fei, along with the guests whom Zhang Xiaorui had helped to greet, and their accompanying driver, were having tea at another location in the nursery.

Fang Qingye was worried that she wouldn't be able to handle the workload, so she called Qian Weimin and asked him to send three female tea masters from his Yunshan Tea House to help.

Around one o'clock, everyone arrived. Including Fang Qingye, there were about 10 main guests. Everyone sat around the tea table, drinking tea and chatting.

The conversation started with anecdotes from the Wuzhen Summit, and naturally drifted to Fang Qingye's "instant fame" fishing feat. Ding Lei slapped his thigh and said, "President Fang, let's form a team for next year's summit. I'll bring a fishing rod too; I refuse to believe I can't outfish you."

“Hey, I’m not afraid of that at all. I can’t beat you at raising pigs, but I’ve never been afraid of anyone when it comes to fishing!” Fang Qingye immediately retorted, “Even Teacher Ma is no match for me when it comes to fishing.”

Ma Yun was sipping tea when she heard this and said helplessly, "I'm just an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire."

Everyone burst into laughter.

After drinking tea for a while, everyone started wandering around the nursery in twos and threes. Although it was winter, the nursery was still lush and green.

Several rows of dark green Podocarpus macrophyllus and Juniperus chinensis are planted against the wall, while large-leaved boxwoods with matte dark green leaves are planted on both sides of the path. In the bonsai area, there are black pines and dense Juniperus chinensis, as well as Osaka pines and Norfolk Island pines.

In addition, the large swathes of blooming Cymbidium goeringii in the greenhouse area attracted everyone's attention.

Ma Yun didn't wander around aimlessly; it seems the tea on the table was more appealing to him than the scenery.

"President Fang, I saw that you were a sponsor for someone on the second enrollment list for Lakeside University, and you even wrote a letter of recommendation?" Ma Yun suddenly remembered something and asked casually.

"Yes, a friend of mine in Nanxin wants to study at your Lakeside University, so he contacted me to be his sponsor."

Fang Qingye then gave a brief introduction to Li Le's situation.

Ma Yun nodded in agreement.

"Your friend's business is doing quite well. More importantly, he's found the hottest trend in the entertainment industry right now: e-sports and live streaming! He has a good eye for business."

"That's why I recommended him as his sponsor." Fang Qingye said with a smile, "I saw that your Lakeside University's admission rules require you, as the principal, to conduct the interviews yourself. Why don't you call him over now and test him here?"

"Haha? Sure, I don't have anything else to do right now anyway," Ma Yun agreed.

“Okay, I’ll call him.” Fang Qingye said, taking out her phone.

At this moment, Li Le was giving a speech to a group of e-sports players at his newly opened e-sports arena in Nanxin County.

This is his latest esports streamer, though he's still a novice at the moment.

Upon receiving Fang Qingye's sudden call, he immediately became nervous: "What? You said that President Ma is at your nursery right now? And that he wants to interview me?"

"Yes, are you free? Can you come?" Fang Qingye asked. "Yes, yes, I'll be there in twenty minutes!" Li Le replied calmly.

He knew this was an opportunity Fang Qingye had fought for him.

It's important to know that those who apply for interviews with Ma Yun have all gone through numerous rounds of screening before they can stand in front of her.

And I have skipped so many steps to reach the final one.

Looking at the esports players standing in a row, Li Le thought for a moment and then said a few more words:
"Think about this carefully, and remember, live streaming is different from playing games normally. When you play games normally, winning or losing only affects your own rank; but when you stream, every game is a performance!"

"Trying to make a living off your talent?" he said, tossing down a thick stack of "Livestream Script Templates." "First, memorize these 200 formulas for responding to comments. Tomorrow's trial broadcast is the assessment—remember, you're not players now, you're entertainers!!"

After finishing his speech, Li Le put on his wool coat and hurriedly left the e-sports room, with his driver, Xiao Liu, quickly following behind.

Xiao Liu is also a retired armed police officer. He is quick-witted and learned grappling and fighting techniques in the army. He is quite skilled in martial arts, which Li Le learned from Fang Qingye. He has become an extra bodyguard.

"Boss, where to?" Xiao Liu asked.

“Ma Yun is here at Fang Qingye’s nursery. She wants to interview me,” Li Le said, getting into the Audi parked on the side of the street.

"Is Ma Yun with Director Fang?" Xiao Liu was also taken aback.

“Yes, he said he’d come over for tea after the Wuzhen Summit,” Li Le replied.

"President Fang is really something, getting along so well with these internet giants," Xiao Liu remarked as he started the car, then suddenly realized he'd said something wrong.

Isn't this a veiled criticism of one's own boss?
Fang Qingye and Ma Yun chatted over tea, becoming like brothers. Fang Qingye's boss rushed over to be interviewed by Ma Yun, wanting to become Ma Yun's student!

"Boss, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant." The driver was immediately flustered and quickly explained.

"Drive your car, I'm not angry." Li Le leaned back in his seat and said calmly, "At least I'm not angry about what you said. Fang Qingye is better than me, so it's nothing."

Although the boss said he wasn't angry, how could Xiao Liu dare to say anything more? He quickly drove northeast towards the county town.

After driving for more than ten minutes, they arrived at Fang Qingye's Four Seasons Nursery. Li Le keenly noticed a police car with its lights on parked at the intersection, and some men walking around the nursery.

Plainclothes police officers.

Li Le immediately recognized him.

A row of luxury cars were parked on the road in front of the nursery. Driver Xiao Liu drove his car to the entrance and was about to look for a parking spot.

Then I heard someone say, "Hey, you can't park here, you'll have to find somewhere else."

It turned out that two plainclothes officers were standing on the roadside and had stopped him.

Xiao Liu immediately looked pleadingly at Li Le, who was sitting in the back row.

Li Le didn't speak, but rolled down the car window, looked at the plainclothes officers outside, and smiled: "Chief Che, it's me."

It turned out to be the director of the nearby Chengbei Police Station, who came here specifically to perform his duties.

The station chief recognized Li Le and smiled, "It's Mr. Li! No wonder the license plate looks so familiar. I'm sorry, you can't park here right now."

"I came to the nursery to see Director Fang," Li Le explained.

"Huh?" Director Che's expression turned troubled: "The nursery is full of important guests right now. I received orders from our Director Zhang that no unauthorized personnel are allowed to enter!"

Unauthorized personnel?!
When did I, Li Le, become an irrelevant person?

(End of this chapter)